Serial, Maria RaquelMaria RaquelSerialBonn, DanielDanielBonnHuppertz, ThomThomHuppertzDijksman, Joshua A.Joshua A.Dijksmanvan der Gucht, JasperJaspervan der Guchtvan Duynhoven, John P. M.John P. M.van DuynhovenTerenzi, CamillaCamillaTerenzi2021-07-132021-07-132021-04-26Physical review fluids 6: 113301 (2021-11-22)http://hdl.handle.net/11420/9884We observe a novel type of shear banding in the rheology of thixotropic yield-stress fluids that is due to the coupling of both non-locality and thixotropy. The latter is known to lead to shear banding even in homogeneous stress fields, but the bands observed in the presence of non-local effects appear different as the shear rate varies continuously over the shear band. Here, we introduce a simple non-local model for the shear banding (NL-SB), and we implement it for the analysis of micron-scale rheo-MRI velocimetry measurements of a milk microgel suspension in a cone-and-plate geometry. The proposed NL-SB model accurately quantifies the cooperativity length and yields values in the order of the aggregate size in the microgel.en2469-990X2021American Physical Societyhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Physics - Soft Condensed MatterNatural Sciences and Mathematics::530: PhysicsJournal Articlehttps://doi.org/10.15480/882.1414310.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.11330110.15480/882.141432104.12697v1Journal Article